The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-03
ABOUT HANGING WOVEN.
THE CUSTOM AND THE LAW IN
MANY OF THE STATES.
Women Who Are New Under Sen.
teHce-what PablIc Feeling
Is 10 the Natter.

This only woman sentenced to be-
hsngsd in New York sincs the inau-
guralion OF Gov. Cleveland, prior to
Mrs Druse, wGs Mrs. Annalette
Insight, and her eentence was COM
muted 10 penal servitude for life. On
NJ ~ 5, 1859, Am Hosg, of Dotchess
county, was hanged for the murder OF
her husband. A woman named Val
kenburg was hanged for a similar
crime six years previously. Awoman
named Mary Hsrtung was sentenced
10 death in 1859. An act was passed
by the Legislature to favs her life,
and so loose y was 1t framed that moi
only did she escape punishment alto
gether, but three men under sentence
Of death at the time shared her good
fortune.
No woman has ever been hanged in
Maine. A Mrs. Brown, Of Kittery,
near the New Hampshire line, is under
sentence Of death, out popular feeling
is 80 strong against her being hanged
that she has been respited to next
April. In the interval a change ia
the State law IL expected.
Connecticut has no record OF q
woman being hanged. Lydia Sner-
man, a deep srate character, was SEN
fenced TO death for wholesale poison
log. Her sentence was commuled;
she escaped from prison, was zap.
tured and died in jill. Mrs. Alexin-
der, of Bridgeport, aud Kate Cobb, OF
N rwich, are both serving out life sen.
teIices for murdedng their husbands.
Minnesota public sentiment ia 30
strong that women are never sem
fenced to death. A woman was hanged
in 1860 for numbering her husband,
bat ia 1875 Sophia Rapp, convicted
for murder, was sentenced for life, and
the Governor reduced the period to
fifteen years.
There are three women in jail 10
Kansas for murder, but there is prsc.
tically no capital punishment in the
State, and no woman bas ever been
hanged In II.
A Louisiana jury on convicting for
murder can add to their verdics the
words: without capital punishment"
This was recently done in the case OF
a young color9d servant girl, who had
poisoned whole family with strych-
nine. No white woman has been
hanged in the State, and only two ne
crosses. Oae OF these was tried under
the spanish and French "b ack code"
and hanged at the scene OF her crime.
The other hanging wss in July, 1885,
the crime being murder ard robbery.
No woman has ever been hanged in
| Iowa. A man YVES sentenced to be
hanged four years ego and still lives,
aud capital punishment. once forbid
den by State law, is very unpopular.
In Maryland there is no distinction
drawn between mae and female MUIR
derers. The only execution of WON
an In recent times was in 1861, when
negress was hanged for killing her
master.
There is no record in Illinois OF any
woman being hanged. Ten years age
woman was convicted of murder in
Kaukakee county, and Is still in the
penitentiary.
Capital punishment is not permitted
in Wisco nsin. A man was once hanged
in that State, but q chsDgs in the law
was made 10 1865.
Kate SttherD, convicted Of murder
in Georgia in 1873, did not hang, anC
Il is now impossibls to convict {
woman Of murder In the first degree
In 1872 Susau Ebel hardt was hanged
for a,ticlpation In murder, muct
to public disgust. Two negroes were
hanged before the war, and both were
proved innocent after their death.
Three years ago a woman named
Catherine Miller was banged for muir
der Ia Pennsylvania A man named
George Smith killed her husband anC
shs stood by. 1t was proved tina
Smith aud Mrs Miller had cInepired
to commit the murder, end both were
hanged. The woman had to be d aggeC
to the scahold and scream ID like {
maniac the whole time. A Mrs
GIainer was hanged In Pittsburg sew
tral years ago for poisoning.
Ia Ohio, L Their Clark was execute
in public in 1874. she was a coloreC
inms'e of the penilentary, and lille:
a white fellow prisoner. Mrs. Sarat
NJ. Victor, Of Cleveland, was convicted
of murder twenty years ago. Her sen
tence was commuted and she is stil
in JAZZ, but lie expected to be pardonet
shorty.
Three women have been hanged il
North Carolina since the war. Two
weeks ago negroes was sentenced &c
dea h at Raleigh aud apothsr was sim
ilsrly sen ,enced at Louisburg Tor in
ianticide last month. 1t is not ex
pecsed that either will hspg. \ "a
Public sentimentin D elaware is yer,
avsrse to hanging women. No femal
has ever been sentenced to death IL
the State A simi'ar sentiment pre-
walls In Massachusetts.